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Chapter 32: Plato's Theory of the Divine Gift.
If anyone carefully considers the gift that comes from God to holy people—which the sacred prophets call the Holy Ghost—they will find that Plato referred to this gift by another name in his dialogue with Meno. Plato, hesitant to call God's gift the Holy Ghost for fear of appearing to follow the prophets' teachings and thus becoming an adversary to the Greeks, acknowledges that it comes from God but chooses to call it virtue instead. In the dialogue with Meno, while discussing the nature of virtue—whether it can be taught, acquired through practice, or is an inherent trait in people, or comes in some other way—he makes this statement: "But if throughout this discussion we have reasoned correctly, virtue must not be a natural gift, nor something acquired through teaching, but is given to those who receive it by divine destiny."
PLATO: having learned these things from the prophets about the Holy Ghost, clearly applied them to what he calls virtue. Just as the prophets say that one spirit is divided into seven, Plato refers to one virtue as divided into four parts, deliberately avoiding any mention of the Holy Spirit while using allegory to convey what the prophets said of the Holy Ghost. He speaks towards the end of the dialogue with Meno: "From this argument, Meno, it seems that virtue is given to those who receive it by divine destiny. However, we will fully understand how virtue comes to people when we first examine independently what virtue itself is." You see, he only refers to the gift from above by the name virtue, yet he deems it worthy of investigation whether it should truly be called virtue or something else, carefully avoiding the name Holy Spirit to avoid the appearance of following the prophets' teachings.